Improved paint-oil



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WM. JOHNSON, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED PAINT-OIL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,316, dated September20, 1864.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM JOHNSON, of the city and county ofAllegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and ImprovedPaint-Oil and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exactdescription of the same.

This invention consists in a certain combination of ingredients, to behereinafter specified, which, after careful experiment, has been foundto constitute amost effectual vehicle for paints.

In order that others skilled in the art to which my invention appertainsmay be enabled to fully understand and use the same, I will proceed todescribe it.

The following are the ingredients of my improved paint-oil, and thequantities named are about the proportions in which the same are mixed,viz: fiaxseed-oil, three gallons; gumshellac, two pounds; gumturpentine, two pounds; rosin, two pounds; sugar of lead, one pound;redlead, one pound; litharge, one

pound dry white lead, one pound; petroleum or coal-oil, thirty-sevengallons. The ingredients above specified, with the exception ofcompounded of ingredients, some of them analogous to mine, but indifferent proportions, is described in Letters Patent granted to Chas.Ooale, April 1, 1862. This therefore I do not broadly claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a paint-oil composed of the ingredientsand mixed in the proportions herein specified.

WM. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

J AMES B. JOHNSON, B. O. Boswon'rn.

